Life Cycle of the Chicken

This week in science we learned about the life cycle of the chicken. We read some really cool books and learned some new vocabulary. It takes about 21 days for the egg to hatch. We learned when the chick is ready to hatch they chip the shell with their egg tooth. Baby chicks are called pullets. We watched a video of a chick hatching. Then we followed up by making an anchor chart of the cycle. We got to use glue and paint so it was the funniest project ever.

As an added bonus my very sweet Uncle Bill brought his baby Rhode Island Red and Americana chicks. They were only one week old. We all got a chance to hold them. One even escaped and ran around the room! It was very exciting!

Thank you Uncle Bill for visiting the class!

Cloud Watching

This week we enjoyed Little Cloud by Eric Carle. I love this unit! First, Eric Carle is simply amazing. Second, we get to cloud watch!

I start by telling a childhood memory of mine. I was lucky to have grandparents who lived on a farm. My grandfather had a huge garden where he grew many different kinds of fruits and vegetables. During the summer I remember going to the garden with him and helping him. I would also lay and look at the clouds and watch them change into anything I could imagine. That is why I love Little Cloud. It brings back a wonderful time in my youth.

So after we read the book, we talk about how to cloud watch. We model it in the room.

Then for the fun part. We go outside and cloud watch. The weather wasn't ideal for cloud watching, so we had to stretch our imaginations.

We made our clouds by using a mixture of shaving cream and glue. Then we wrote about what our cloud changed into. The whole class did such a great job. We displayed it at Open House.

Welcome Home Surprise

Our class had an amazing surprise today! One of the Marines, Grant we wrote (Connor's cousin) came home and took the time to visit us! We all were excited but not as excited as Connor was! Grant brought his mom who I thought was pretty amazing too! Grant stayed and ate cookies with us. Yummy cookies my super fabulous friend Christine made! You can only imagine how wild we all were. It isn't everyday we meet a real life Marine. Grant was cool enough to stay and answer some of our questions. He even did the Sid Shuffle with us. He didn't do it as well as Mrs. Richardson can, but he did his best! Mrs. Wendy was taking tons of pictures. Here are a few. We loved having Grant pop in and think he is totally rockin awesome (the class' words)! We are proud of him and wish him lots of luck and awesomeness!